Update 2/25/2026: We regret to inform you that the concert featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason, scheduled for Saturday, March 21 in Hill Auditorium has been canceled.

Sheku’s ongoing recovery from a finger injury is taking longer than he had anticipated to heal, and with huge regret, he is withdrawing from all of his concerts through the end of May 2026. We plan to invite Sheku and Isata to return to Hill Auditorium once they are touring together again.

Siblings Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason bring their extraordinary musical chemistry to a program that bridges Romantic lyricism and 20th-century innovation.

Opening the program is Felix Mendelssohn’s first cello sonata, a work of luminous interplay that reveals both the cello’s expressive depth and the piano’s crystalline brilliance. Then, Nadia Boulanger’s striking miniatures demonstrate the full range of the cello’s capabilities, as do Robert Schumann’s folk-inspired short compositions. The program concludes with the trailblazing composer Rebecca Clarke, whose rich, expressive Viola Sonata is presented here in its cello arrangement. Written in 1919 for a competition, the work tied for first place with a sonata by Ernest Bloch and is admired for its sweeping lyricism, harmonic richness, technical brilliance, and sheer expressive power.